Decision-makers willing to destroy livelihoods

I AM having my 80th birthday in August and I am not suffering from mental dysfunction, and I do not understand the problemsolving undertaken by state premiers, their ministers, senior bureaucrats and health advisers.

Why are they so seemingly willing to destroy the livelihoods of businesses and increase the despair and mental distress of their citizens who are threatened with minimum employment prospects for the next year or two?

I am among those most at risk from COVID-19 and in the age bracket that does not frequent public transport at peak travel periods or spend hours in the clubs and pubs.

So why not devise plans to protect the most vulnerable like myself and make sure that those who are most needed to increase this nation’s productivity return to work?

Allow tourists to do their thing by opening borders and the decision-makers identified in the first paragraph can go into hibernation in public-provided offices and suites.

The longer I ponder the actions imposed on us by “our leaders and their advisers”, the more I cringe at their processing of facts based on the evidence and events over the past four to six weeks.

Are we to be governed for the next couple of decades in a similar manner to what we’ve witnessed in the big boys’ and girls’ playschool in Canberra, and the dictatorial dysfunctional decisionmaking that is prolonging the hardship and destruction of so many lifestyles and businesses?

Australia needs new governance. Create a two-tiered system by dumping the federated state and territories for a national and regional government with clearly defined responsibilities in a new constitution.

ROBERT BUICK, Mountain Creek.